Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Core i7-3770 vs Core i7-3940XM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770 beats the Core i7-3940XM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3940XM. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-3940XM outputs less heat than Core i7-3770 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-3770 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.